In an interview with Expression TV Megadeth bassist David Ellefson answered questions about the current “Big Four Tour” and Megadeth’s fourth coming album.
When asked whether the “Big Four” should more appropriately called “The Big One And Three Small Ones” Ellefson replied:
“No it’s definitley not that. It’s definitley the “Big Four”. Obviously Metallica got very big very quickly in their career. To some degree, we’re always considered the “Big Four” by the fans…I don’t know if a fan came up with that or if the media came up with that, but somebody coined that term and it wasn’t us, it wasn’t any of our bands. And for all these years later Metallica to really stand behind that and embrace that is cool”.
On the subject of Megadeth’s upcoming album he stated:
“Lets put it this way: it’s funny that 20 years ago, we came off “Rust in Peace” and we went in and made “Countdown to Extinction“. So to me, that’s kind of what this album feels like. We did “Sudden Death” and then the new song, “Never Dead”, which is a very violent riff. That was the first song we did, and finished it top to bottom because we had to get it into this video game called “Never Dead”. So that’s a pretty good indication of what the new record is gonna be”. I liken it probably a little bit more to “Countdown to Extinction”, cause there’s a couple of songs that aren’t just full on, in your face thrashing. However, most of it is. So you guys are gonna be excited. You’ll like it. you’ll dig it. you’ll have fun listeniung to it.
